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Teresa Madruga

Actor

Films

Tabu

Tabu

By Miguel Gomes

2012 | 113 min | Crime

Aurora, an old woman, her Capeverdean housekeeper, and Pilar, all live in the same house in Lisbon. When the old woman dies, the other two learn a secret from Aurora's past. Miguel Gomes's film is an open deference to Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's silent movie “Tabu” and was celebrated at the Berlinale, where it received the Alfred Bauer Prize. "What’s most remarkable about Gomes’ achievement is how he’s uncovered the genuine, yearning emotion within a fairly standard colonials-in-Africa romance, ...

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Dry Hot Summers

Dry Hot Summers

2016 | 30 min | Comedy

The frail old Shawky and the spirited young Doaa are both caught up in their own routines as their trip through the city evolves into a journey of self-discovery through which they reconnect with life. Sherif Elbendary, whose films have been officially selected at over 70 festivals worldwide and won more than a dozen prestigious awards, returns to the screen with his short film DRY HOT SUMMERS - sponsored by the Robert Bosch Foundation. "It would be no exaggeration to say that Har Gar Sayfan [DRY ...

It Happened Just Before

It Happened Just Before

2006 | 72 min | Crime

The documentary deals with the global phenomenon of human trafficking. The stories of affected women are told by people who have no actual connection to the facts, but could have. Director Anja Salomonowitz chooses an original approach to her topic. The film is based on real stories of trafficked women, which the director has condensed into a documentary screenplay. Thus, the films constantly finds new connections between the narrative logic of cinematographic fiction, the “what could happen” and ...

Die Legende vom Nil

Die Legende vom Nil

1991 | 58 min | Biography

The painter and graphic artist Paul Klee (1879-1940) is said to have had a lifelong fascination with North Africa. After his formative trip to Tunis in 1914, he returned to North Africa in 1928. Egypt impressed him with its light, its landscape and its epochal monuments. The influence of this trip was already evident in the 1929 oil painting Necropolis. Filmmaker and author Rüdiger Sünner uses his diary entries to follow the artist's footsteps through colorful bazaars, mysterious colonnades and ...

Red Earth White Snow

Red Earth White Snow

2018 | 71 min | Documentary

"There is nothing stranger in a strange land than the strangers who come to visit," we hear the voice of the director say off-screen in Nkwumeatu, located in southeastern Nigeria. Christine Moderbacher´s literally "unbelieving gaze" emulates Chinua Achebe´s book, All Things Fall Apart, first published in 1958, as she comprehends the "real" relationships and reference points to red earth and white snow in their presence. The tractor is a symbol of technical progress and simultaneously a crucial link ...

Alive

Alive

2019 | 94 min | Drama

Sophie and Wolfram meet in the hospital and set off together on their final journey. Both are terminally ill with cancer. They have to say goodbye to family and friends. They navigate their fear, pain, and physical decline, but a tender love takes root. A stunning, non-linear exploration of human relationships, of love and time shared through the denouement of terminal diagnosis. "Michael Siebert takes his audience on a journey of concentrated human emotions and invites to an open confrontation ...

Red Ears

Red Ears

2022 | 30 min | Animation

Armed with photos from back then, Paul travels to visit a Senegalese friend and takes her on a trip down memory lane with animations and old videos. Paul Drey documents experiences, illusions, and traumas he encountered as a 19-year-old in the city of Thiès in Senegal. As part of his year of community service, he flew to Senegal with a German NGO in 2010, where he worked in the surgery department of a hospital. Poverty, corruption, and a difficult everyday life turned his hopes for meaningful development ...